CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOPS

Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (CTFK)

Encouraging the Media in Kenya to Adopt a Pro Health Agenda: The Treatment and Coverage of Tobacco Related Stories

AMI in collaboration with CTFK provided specialised and continuous training for the media community to leverage the power and influence that the media has in order to improve tobacco control coverage in the media in Kenya.

The pilot project built the awareness and reporting skills of journalists on the issue of tobacco control and engaged media leaders and editors in chief to treat tobacco control stories as newsworthy.

Activities held so far

May 15, 2013, a half a day roundtable meeting was held with 10 media leaders and editors in chief from the mainstream and specialized media houses in Kenya. The discussions were extremely fruitful and revolved around means and methods to make the tobacco control agenda a more appealing and newsworthy to editors who will in turn support its growth and sustainability in their respective newsrooms.

Media operators and editors in chief attending the Nairobi roundtable

May 16 and 17 2013, the first series of capacity building workshop for journalists on tobacco control was organized Nairobi. 16 journalists from the mainstream, specialized, online and social media attended the workshop.

Journalists attending the Nairobi training workshop

August 1 2013, four fellows (Nairobi region) were nominated

September 18 and 19 September 2013, the second series of capacity building workshop for journalists on tobacco control was organized in Mombasa. 19 senior journalists from the coastal regions attended

May 27 2014 – Dissemination Workshop on ‘Promoting a Tobacco Control Agenda: Engaging the Media in Kenya’.

Group Photo of Participants and Fellows

Roukaya Kasenally welcoming the participants

A partial view of some participants

Financial Proficiency Workshops

Evidence points to the fact that there is an important knowledge and skills gap among media houses when it comes to understanding the business and financial worlds. To address this lacuna, AMI has been funded by the African Development Bank (AfDB) to organize the first series of workshops on ‘Financial Proficiency for Media Executives’.

The first workshop was held on the 7- 8 June 2013 in Naivaisha, Kenya

Some 15 media executives from Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Burundi attended and evaluated the workshop as ‘very interesting with a lot of hands on knowledge’.

A second series will be held in early 2014 in collaboration with AfDB. This activity is a condition for the AfDB to finalize the agreement on the funding mechanism we are currently working on.